Art: Super

Paris' exhibition of L'Art Cruel (TIME, Jan. 24) had not long closed its
doors on a willing world before there opened last fortnight in a small,
select Galerie Beaux-Arts an exhibition with a broader appeal. This was
the first international show of Surrealism (superrealism) ever held in
the city where that movement was born.* Critics who have been
forgetting about this weird school's pristine vigors were reminded of
them forcibly when the opening night turned into a near riot, with
2,000 chittering Frenchmen milling around the gates and a troop of
police in...